In the interview with IGN, Howard noted that he had only seen Fallout: London through some videos, and that he hadn’t yet played it. He did, however, go into detail about how difficult it is for a modding team to convert one game into something else altogether.

“I would say we look at a lot of the modding that’s going on, and when you have those total conversions – I just want to say how hard that is,” said Howard. “And so, the fact that it came out, first of all, because most of those never come out, and the fact that it came out… It seems a lot of fans love it. It’s just – I need to express to everybody out there how difficult and what a journey that is for some of these big mod teams to do stuff like that.”

Fallout: London, as you might have guessed from its title, converts the setting of Fallout 4 into England’s capital city. The story behind the mod’s central campaign revolves around the protagonist’s loss of memory, as well as the mysteries surrounding Smythe. The mod is a fully-featured one, and includes all of the gameplay mechanics you know and love from Fallout 4, from combat and VATS to base-building.

The team behind Fallout: London—Team FOLON—didn’t quite call the mod itself finished, however. The team has since released a major new DLC release for the mod, dubbed Rabbit & Pork. “SOOOO Big things are coming,” wrote Team FOLON on social media before Rabbit & Pork was officially released. “Fallout London‘s first DLC is getting closer, and the team at Team Folon Ltd has been working non-stop to bring the ‘Rabbit & Pork’ DLC to you all. Maybe some more surprises, too. Exciting times ahead. Stay tuned!”

Fallout: London was released back in July 2024, and a large part of the effort behind the total-conversion mod was in accurately and artistically depicting its setting of post-apocalyptic London. Alongside a new setting, the mod also brought an extension to the dialogue system, as well as a host of new quests and companions.

Shortly after its initial release, Fallout: London‘s developers had confirmed that the mod had seen more than a million downloads. Since its launch, the mod has also seen a host of updates, which have included bug fixes, performance improvements and even new quests. For more details about Fallout: London, check out our review. For more of our thoughts on the mod, check out why we believe it to be evidence that Bethesda needs to renew its focus on the future of the Fallout franchise.

The new weapons include a Throwing Knife, Tennis Ball Pitcher, AutoMines, and even Portable Artillery. Players can also equip Greaser jackets and vests, a Traffic Cone Helmet, and a Guard Helmet bearing a resemblance to another Bethesda franchise. You can even partake in new minigames and own an animal companion.

Of course, the new content is just the tip of the iceberg as Team Folon has implemented “thousands” of bug fixes and improved stability based on feedback. Furthermore, it worked with Overwolf to create a custom launcher for easier installation.

Fallout: London is available for PC – check out our review for the launch version here. It became a strong success, crossing one million downloads.

“SOOOO Big things are coming,” announced the mod team on X. “Fallout London‘s first DLC is getting closer, and the team at Team Folon Ltd has been working non-stop to bring the ‘Rabbit & Pork’ DLC to you all. Maybe some more surprises too. Exciting times ahead. Stay tuned!”

The post comes after the team first hinted at the Rabbit & Pork DLC back in December with an image that gave us the names of more planned updates. Other updates coming to Fallout London in the future include Last Orders and Wildcard. Team FOLON hasn’t yet provided more details on these updates, however.

Released last year, Fallout London has proven to be immensely successful, getting more than a million downloads by October. The mod has also been noteworthy in one of its developers getting hired by Bethesda before the mod even came out.

As its name might imply, Fallout London essentially brings the city of London in all of Fallout 4‘s post-apocalyptic glory to the game. While not canonical to the main Fallout storyline, Fallout London features a host of content, including quests, an expanded dialogue system, and new companions.

Fallout London can be downloaded and played for free as long as you own Fallout 4‘s Game of the Year edition. Players on Steam will have to deal with some minor issues in trying to get an earlier version of Fallout 4 installed than the next-gen update.

For more details on Fallout London, here’s why you should give it a try if you love the franchise. For a more in-depth look at the mod, check out our review.

SOOOO Big things are coming! Fallout: London’s first DLC is getting closer, and the team at Team Folon Ltd has been working non-stop to bring the “Rabbit & Pork” DLC to you all. Maybe some more surprises too 👀 Exciting times ahead. Stay tuned! 🇬🇧

— Team FOLON (@TeamFOLON) February 6, 2025

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— Team FOLON (@TeamFOLON) December 21, 2024

As a total conversion for Fallout 4, Fallout: London features a brand new story set in post-apocalyptic London. Players scour the world, trying to discover their identity and unravel the mystery behind Smythe. While everything from the base game is intact, including combat and base-building, there are new characters to meet, factions to join, and side quests to complete.

It’s all the more enjoyable by the world design, which features numerous references to British culture, famous landmarks, and even cameos from Doctor Who actors. Check out our review for more details.

While the mod is finally out, Team FOLON continues to release updates. Its latest contains over 1,000 fixes, including restoring missing dialogue, correcting audio sound descriptors, implementing more ambient audio, and more. Check out the full change log here.

How successful exactly? GOG, the platform that it was released on, recently issued a press release in which it announced that Fallout London had become the fastest redeemed platform in the platform’s history, having been redeemed more than 500,000 times in its first 24 hours. Of course, Fallout London is an entirely free download, but that’s an impressive number nonetheless- especially for a fan-made conversion mod.

And as I touched on earlier, there’s been plenty of other evidence over the course of the last few months alone that has made it abundantly clear that there’s extreme demand for a new Fallout game, with the aforementioned Amazon show having sparked drastically boosted sales and engagement numbers for pretty much any game bearing the Fallout name that people could get their hands on. Fallout is obviously a huge franchise, so there’s never been any doubt that there’s never going to be any shortage of demand for a new entry- but if the last few months have made anything clear beyond a shadow of doubt, it’s that Bethesda has made fans wait for a Fallout game far, far longer than it should have.

It’s no secret that modern AAA development is eye-wateringly time consuming, while also requiring an equally heavy financial investment, so Bethesda Game Studios is by no means the only developer out there that has seen the frequency of its output being cut down drastically over the course of the last decade or so. But while it makes less than zero sense to blame studios for taking the necessary time to make massive, big budget games, one also can’t help but wonder whether, knowing what it obviously would have known about the heavy requirements of modern development, Bethesda could have done a better job of planning for the future of one of its biggest properties.

Under ordinary circumstances, if someone were to tell you that it’s been close to a decade since the last mainline release in a franchise, one of your very first assumptions would probably be that its last major release hadn’t been successful enough to warrant at least an immediate follow up (or even one in the distant future). But this if Fallout we’re talking about. The last time we got a mainline single player game in the series was all the way back in 2015 with Fallout 4, which, sure, may have proven divisive for a good portion of the fanbase- but at the end of the day, it will still a critically well received game, and an even bigger commercial success. And yet here we are, nearly a decade later, still waiting patiently for Fallout 5.

But wait, we hear you say- what about Fallout 76? And yes, that’s certainly a caveat that sort of explains (and even excuses, for many of its fans) the prolonged absence of the franchise’s mainline series. The multiplayer RPG launched in 2018, and though it’s technically not the flagship mainline entry that many have been desperately waiting for, it is a modern Fallout game that players can dive into if more of the series is what they want. And though things obviously did not start out great for the game, with time, Bethesda has consistently improved and added to Fallout 76, turning it into a legitimately fun experience. But let’s face it- it ain’t Fallout 5. Is it a decent alternative to whet our appetites while we wait for the main meal? In its current state, it absolutely is. But it’s not a replacement, not by a stretch.

What makes it worse is the fact that we have no damn idea how long we’ll be waiting for that main course, other than it’s going to be years and years and years. Bethesda Game Studios’ last major project, Starfield, is not even a year old yet, and for at least the foreseeable future, the developer is going to be focused on delivering post-launch content and support for the space-faring RPG. After that, next up for BGS is The Elder Scrolls 6, another long awaited sequel that fans have been waiting for for far longer than they ideally should have been, and presumably, its launch (however far away that is) will be followed by post-launch support over at least 2-3 years as well. And then we’re going to get Fallout 5- all of which is to say that it’s likely we won’t be getting the next mainline game in the series for maybe another decade, if not even more.

So what’s the solution to this very frustrating problem? Because a solution is obviously needed at this point. Yes, Microsoft and Bethesda are both benefiting massively from the increased sales that the entire Fallout franchise is enjoying in 2024, but by not having a new release to line up with this resurgence in popularity for the franchise, you could also argue that they’ve left money on the table. And with Fallout 5 not releasing anytime soon, maybe the people in charge of the franchise need to look at alternative options.

More than a few times, fans of the series have floated the idea of a Fallout spinoff being developed by a different studio, similar to what Obsidian Entertainment did with Fallout: New Vegas back in the day, while Bethesda could also always choose to fill the gaps in the series’ release schedule with remakes or remasters of older titles in the franchise. The latter in particular is something that leaks have suggested as well, with mentions of a remaster of Fallout 3 having been spotted in leaked Microsoft documents during the company’s FTC trial last year.

Frankly, any of those outcomes would be preferable to the situation we’re in right now, where our only hope for more, new Fallout content in the near (or even distant) future is either expansions for Fallout 76 or a group of fans coming together to release a total conversion mod. That’s not taking away anything from Fallout London, of course, which, as we mentioned in our review, is a full-featured experience with an engaging story, an excellent map that’s brimming with atmosphere, and genuinely well-realized quests and characters. In a world where Bethesda and Microsoft can’t seem to figure out how to reprioritize Fallout, Team FOLON’s expansion-sized mod has done a wonderful job of giving us a captivating taste of the series’ beloved post-apocalyptic offerings.

Which brings us back to where we started- Fallout London releasing and being as good as it is has made the absence of a new, official Fallout game more starkly apparent (not that that wasn’t already the case). We can only hope that its popularity will compel Microsoft and Bethesda to fast-track their efforts to find a way release Fallout content with greater frequency.

Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, GamingBolt as an organization.

STORY

Being an unofficial mod, Fallout London is obviously not going to be part of the series’ canon, but it is promising to tell an interesting story. The game is set in the year 2237, which puts it between the events of Fallout 1 and 2, and roughly 50 years before the events of Fallout 4. What makes it particularly interesting, however, is the fact that, as its name gives away, it’s set in London. Never in the history of the Fallout franchise have we stepped outside of the United States of America, so it should be interesting to see what Fallout London’s take on the post-apocalyptic remains of the English city are. From a narrative perspective, the mod focuses on several factions vying for control over London- but more on that in a bit. For now, let’s speak about London itself.

MAP DETAILS

Being able to explore the post-nuclear remains of the city of London in Fallout’s post-apocalyptic world is obviously one of the bigger draws of this mod, but what exactly can we expect from the map? According to the development team, Team FOLON, the mod’s map is going to be quite a sizeable one- as large as the map of Fallout 4’s base game and its Far Harbor DLC put together, in fact, which, if you’ve played those two, sounds like a huge play area. In total, the map is divided into 15 boroughs, and according to Team FOLON, there’s as much as 90 hours of content for players to get through.

NOT YOUR TYPICAL FALLOUT

Fallout: London is looking to leverage its London setting in some truly interesting ways- including giving us a glimpse into an alternative reality where we could see what a Fallout game set outside of the USA and the series’ focus on Americana-driven satire would look like. According to Team FOLON, you can expect plenty of elements that are usually staples of the franchise to be MIA in this game. For starters, in the Fallout lore the Forced Evolutionary Virus (or FEV) never made its way to London, which means all of the monstrosities and nightmarish creatures it created won’t be in the mod either. That includes Super Mutants and Deathclaws, among other things. Additionally, you can also expect Vault-Tec to have no presence in London whatsoever, since it’s an American company- though you can expect other, dingier underground vaults.

WEAPONS

Another area where it looks like Fallout London is attempting to deliver a different kind of Fallout experience is the combat, which, according to Team FOLON, is going to be much less focused on gunplay. Instead, players can expect melee weapons to play a much larger role, to the extent of being the only weapons you’ll be using at times. Gunplay has admittedly never been one of Fallout’s strengths, but the shooting did see significant improvements in Fallout 4 over previous titles, so it should be interesting to see how Fallout London fares with its combat changes.

FACTIONS

Factions have always played a huge role in any Fallout experience (or any Bethesda Game Studios RPG, for that matter), and yes, there will be plenty of those that players will be crossing paths with in Fallout: London as well. The most powerful of them all is the Gentry, who are the current rulers of London and descendants of the pre-war aristocracy and government, who are looking to rebuild the United Kingdom once more. Then there are the Tommies, a militia that has become a tool for the Gentry; 5th Column, an anarchist faction looking to tear down the established rule in London in order to rebuild a new empire; and the Camelot Republic, an underground resistance movement that is also looking to remove the Gentry from power and instead replace them with a new representative republic government.

MORE FACTIONS

Yes, there are still more factions to talk about- London is a big place after all, and there’s plenty of different groups with their own motivations and goals that you’ll be working with and against. There’s the Isle of Dogs Syndicate, for instance, which is essentially a gang in control of Millwall that runs a sizeable smuggling operation. There are the Vagabonds, who are described as the mortal enemies of the aforementioned Ise of Dogs Syndicate, and are on a quest for revenge. There’s also the elusive and mysterious group known as Angel, rumoured to be descendants of a secret pre-war science ministry who have eyes all over the city. In total, Team FOLON says there are 20 factions

COMPANIONS

Like the series that it owes its existence to, Fallout London is also going to feature a number of different companion characters that players will be able to meet, recruit, and head out on quests with. In total, there are going to be seven companion characters, each of whom will bring their own story tidbits and ties to different factions.

DIALOGUE

Fallout: London may be a mod based on Fallout 4, but it’s looking to tweak the base gameplay experience in some notable ways. For instance, the base game’s dialogue system has been expanded for the mod, with Team FOLON promising an experience that places choice and consequence mechanics front and center, something that Fallout 4 was criticized for not doing. Additionally, the development team has also confirmed that the main protagonist in the mod isn’t voiced, which is another area where the base game drew criticism. Additionally, speaking of voice acting, though the protagonist is going to be a silent one, all major characters in Fallout: London will be fully voiced.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Several other finer details have also been revealed on Fallout London. For instance, settlements – a core component of the Fallout 4 base game – is going to be part of the experience here as well, with a total of seven new and unique settlements included in the mod. In addition to that, players can expect dynamic new animations, new craftable items, new weapons to use in combat, as many as 200 quests, and more. Oh, and for those of you wondering whether Fallout London is ever going to show up on consoles- Team FOLON says the mod is going to be available only on PC. Will that possibly change in the future? Never say never, I guess, but that’s not the plan right, at least.

REQUIREMENTS

To be able to access Fallout London, you’re going to need not just the Fallout 4 base game, but also all of its DLC (which means you could also just buy the Game of the Year Edition). Available via both Steam and GoG, the mod will also need you to disable cloud saves, and will replace the actual, official game entirely. If you want to get the game back, you’ll have to uninstall it and the mod, before reinstalling the former again.